Also known as TMM 31199, WPA, Work Project No. 15995
Where: Crosby County, Texas (33.8° N, 101.2° W: paleocoordinates 33.9° N, 100.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Blanco Formation, Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• at contact of red clay with overlying Blanco green sands
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; green sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by WPA in 1941; reposited in the TMM
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),
Primary reference: Anonymous. 1941. The ninth quarterly report covering the quarter ending June 30, 1941 for the state-wide paleontologic-mineralogic survey in Texas. A Federal Works Agency Work Projects Administration Project. O.P. No. 665-66-3-233. State Serial No. 300-88 1-41 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 207486: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 13.01.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Mastodontidae indet. Gray 1821 proboscidean | |
Megatylopus sp. Matthew and Cook 1909 camel |